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A maggot is a small, soft, pale creature, like a tiny worm. It is the young form of a fly. Maggots live in rotting food, dead animals, or dirt, and later they change into flies. People find them ugly, so the word feels strong. Fishermen sometimes keep them as bait, and doctors have even used clean maggots to eat dead skin in a wound — though actually that is careful hospital work, not something you do at home. In very old or literary English, maggot could also mean a strange little idea in someone’s head, from an old folk belief that a person had maggots in the brain. will almost always meet the insect sense.
組成From Middle English magot, magat, probably a sound-swap of older maddock, a small-form of a Germanic worm-name related to Old English maþa. Near kin outside English include Dutch made and German Made. The “odd idea” meaning comes from the folk belief that a whimsical person had maggots in the head.
同家族的字
- maggotythe adjective: full of maggots, or (informally) bad-tempered
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
maggotnoun/ˈmæɡət/
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A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipteran insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
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vulgarderogatoryslangA worthless, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- Drop and give me fifty, maggot.
- "Maggot!" said Catweazle angrily. "Sit thee down!"
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archaicdialectalA whimsy or fancy.
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
- ‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’
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slangA fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
- (We) We are the new diabolic (We) We are the bitter bucolic If I have to give my life, you can have it (We) We are the pulse of the maggots
maggotverb/ˈmæɡət/
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To rid (an animal) of maggots.
- In the summer I had to get the sheep penned twice a day to maggot them and I needed a good dog.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- MAGAt
- maggoted
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。